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To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale, |
Seize thee that list: if once I find thee ranging, |
Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing. |
BAPTISTA: |
KATHARINA: |
No shame but mine: I must, forsooth, be forced |
To give my hand opposed against my heart |
Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen; |
Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure. |
I told you, I, he was a frantic fool, |
Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior: |
And, to be noted for a merry man, |
He'll woo a thousand, 'point the day of marriage, |
Make feasts, invite friends, and proclaim the banns; |
Yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd. |
Now must the world point at poor Katharina, |
And say, 'Lo, there is mad Petruchio's wife, |
If it would please him come and marry her!' |
TRANIO: |
Patience, good Katharina, and Baptista too. |
Upon my life, Petruchio means but well, |
Whatever fortune stays him from his word: |
Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise; |
Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest. |
KATHARINA: |
Would Katharina had never seen him though! |
BAPTISTA: |
Go, girl; I cannot blame thee now to weep; |
For such an injury would vex a very saint, |
Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour. |
BIONDELLO: |
Master, master! news, old news, and such news as |
you never heard of! |
BAPTISTA: |
Is it new and old too? how may that be? |
BIONDELLO: |
Why, is it not news, to hear of Petruchio's coming? |
BAPTISTA: |
Is he come? |
BIONDELLO: |
Why, no, sir. |
BAPTISTA: |
What then? |
BIONDELLO: |
He is coming. |
BAPTISTA: |
When will he be here? |
BIONDELLO: |
When he stands where I am and sees you there. |
TRANIO: |
But say, what to thine old news? |
BIONDELLO: |
Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old |
jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned, a pair |
of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled, |
another laced, an old rusty sword ta'en out of the |
town-armory, with a broken hilt, and chapeless; |
with two broken points: his horse hipped with an |
old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred; |
besides, possessed with the glanders and like to mose |
in the chine; troubled with the lampass, infected |
with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with |
spavins, rayed with yellows, past cure of the fives, |
stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the |
bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten; |
near-legged before and with, a half-chequed bit |
and a head-stall of sheeps leather which, being |
restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been |
often burst and now repaired with knots; one girth |
six time pieced and a woman's crupper of velure, |
which hath two letters for her name fairly set down |
in studs, and here and there pieced with packthread. |
BAPTISTA: |
Who comes with him? |
BIONDELLO: |
O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned |
like the horse; with a linen stock on one leg and a |
kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red |
and blue list; an old hat and 'the humour of forty |
fancies' pricked in't for a feather: a monster, a |
very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian |
footboy or a gentleman's lackey. |
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